52nd Filmfare Awards

52nd Filmfare Awards
52nd Filmfare Awards
Date	17 February 2007
Site	Yash Raj Studios
Hosted by	Shahrukh Khan, Karan Johar, Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Rang De Basanti
Critics Award; for Best Film	Lage Raho Munnabhai
Most awards	Omkara (9)
Most nominations	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (23)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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The 52nd Fair One Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group and Fair One, was one of India's most prestigious awards ceremonies, honoring the best Bollywood films of 2006. It took place on 17 February 2007 at the Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai.^[1]

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna led the ceremony with 23 nominations, followed by Rang De Basanti with 21 nominations, Omkara with 17 nominations, and Lage Raho Munnabhai with 12 nominations.

Omkara won 9 awards, including Best Actress (Critics) (for Kareena Kapoor), Best Supporting Actress (for Konkona Sen Sharma) and Best Villain (for Saif Ali Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Both Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan received dual nominations for Best Actor, with Roshan being nominated for Dhoom 2 and Krrish, and Khan being nominated for Don: The Chase Begins Again and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, with Roshan winning the category for Dhoom 2.

Awards & Nominees

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Best Director winner

Hrithik Roshan, Best Actor winner

Kajol, Best Actress winner

Abhishek Bachchan, Best Supporting Actor winner

Konkona Sen Sharma, Best Supporting Actor winner

Javed Akhtar and Jaya Bachchan, Lifetime Achievement Awardees

Main Awards

The awards were announced on 8 February 2007.^[2]^[3]

Best Film	Best Director
Rang De Basanti – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures Dhoom 2 – Yash Raj Films Don: The Chase Begins Again – Excel Entertainment Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna – Dharma Productions Krrish – Filmkraft Productions Pvt. Ltd. Lage Raho Munnabhai – Vinod Chopra Films	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra – Rang De Basanti Karan Johar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Rakesh Roshan – Krrish Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munnabhai Sanjay Gadhvi – Dhoom 2 Vishal Bhardwaj – Omkara
Best Actor	Best Actress
Hrithik Roshan – Dhoom 2 as Aryan / Mr. A Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti as Daljit 'DJ' / Chandrashekhar Azad Hrithik Roshan – Krrish as Krishna Mehra / Krrish / Rohit Mehra Sanjay Dutt – Lage Raho Munnabhai as Murli Prasad Sharma (Munna Bhai) Shah Rukh Khan – Don: The Chase Begins Again as Don / Vijay Shah Rukh Khan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Dev Saran	Kajol – Fanaa as Zooni Ali Baig Aishwarya Rai – Dhoom 2 as Sunehri Shinde Bipasha Basu – Corporate as Nishigandha Dasgupta Kareena Kapoor – Omkara as Dolly Mishra Rani Mukerji – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Maya Talwar
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Abhishek Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna* as Rishi Talwar** Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Samarjit 'Sam' Talwar John Abraham – Baabul as Rajat Verma Kunal Kapoor – Rang De Basanti as Aslam / Ashfaqulla Khan Siddharth Narayan – Rang De Basanti as Karan R. Singhania / Bhagat Singh	*Konkona Sen Sharma – Omkara* as Indu Tyagi** Kirron Kher – Rang De Basanti as Mitro Preity Zinta – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Rhea Saran Rekha – Krrish as Sonia S. Mehra Soha Ali Khan – Rang De Basanti as Sonia / Durga Vohra
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Not awarded	Kangana Ranaut – Gangster
Best Villain	Best Comedian
Saif Ali Khan – Omkara as Ishwar "Langda" Tyagi Boman Irani – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Lucky Singh Emraan Hashmi – Gangster as Akash John Abraham – Zinda as Rohit Chopra Naseeruddin Shah – Krrish as Dr. Siddhant Arya	Arshad Warsi – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Sarkeshwar (Circuit) Chunky Pandey – Apna Sapna Money Money Paresh Rawal – Phir Hera Pheri as Baburao Ganpatrao Apte Sharman Joshi – Golmaal as Laxman Tusshar Kapoor – Golmaal as Lucky Gill
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman – Rang De Basanti Himesh Reshammiya – Aksar Jatin-Lalit – Fanaa Pritam – Dhoom 2 Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Don: The Chase Begins Again	Prasoon Joshi – "Chand Sifarish" from Fanaa Gulzar – "Beedi" from Omkara Javed Akhtar – "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Javed Akhtar – "Mitwa" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Prasoon Joshi – "Roobaroo" from Rang De Basanti
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Shaan & Kailash Kher – "Chand Sifarish" from Fanaa Atif Aslam – "Tere Bin" from Bas Ek Pal Himesh Reshammiya – "Jhalak Dikhlaja" from Aksar Sonu Nigam – "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Zubeen Garg – "Ya Ali" from Gangster	Sunidhi Chauhan – "Beedi" from Omkara Alka Yagnik – "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Shreya Ghoshal – "Pal Pal Har Pal" from Lage Raho Munnabhai Sunidhi Chauhan – "Aashiqui Mein" from 36 China Town Sunidhi Chauhan – "Soniye" from Aksar

Critics' Awards

Best Film
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Rajkumar Hirani)
Best Performance
Best Actor	Best Actress
Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti	Kareena Kapoor – Omkara

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munnabhai Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla Kamlesh Pandey – Rang De Basanti Kersi Khambatta – Being Cyrus Mahesh Bhatt – Gangster	Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla Anurag Basu – Gangster Homi Adajania & Kersi Khambatta – Being Cyrus Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munnabhai Rensil D'Silva & Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra – Rang De Basanti
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munnabhai Girish Dhamija – Gangster Neeraj Vora – Golmaal Niranjan Iyengar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Prasoon Joshi – Rang De Basanti Vishal Bhardwaj – Omkara	P. S. Bharati – Rang De Basanti Akiv Ali – Gangster John Harris & Anand Subaya – Being Cyrus Meghna Manchanda – Omkara Rajkumar Hirani – Lage Raho Munnabhai
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Ganesh Acharya – "Beedi" from Omkara Farah Khan – "Humko Maloom Hai" from Jaan-E-Mann Farah Khan – "Rock 'N' Roll Soniye" from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Ganesh Acharya – "Samjho Ho Hi Gaya" from Lage Raho Munna Bhai Ganesh Acharya – "Paathshala" from Rang De Basanti	Binod Pradhan – Rang De Basanti Anil Mehta – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna Bobby Singh – Gangster Jahangir Choudhary – Being Cyrus Mohanan – Don: The Chase Begins Again Tassaduq Hussain – Omkara
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Samir Chanda – Omkara Aradhana Seth – Don: The Chase Begins Again Aparna Raina, Navin Kankre & Shekhar More – Being Cyrus Samir Chanda – Rang De Basanti Sharmishta Roy – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Shajith Koyeri, Subash Sahu & K.J. Singh – Omkara Akiv Ali – Gangster Andrew Bellety – Being Cyrus Jeetendra Choudhary, Baylon Fonsecai & Nakul Kamre – Krrish Nakul Kamre – Rang De Basanti
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Dolly Ahluwalia – Omkara Aki Narula – Don: The Chase Begins Again Anaita Shroff Adajania – Being Cyrus Lovleen Bains & Arjun Bhasin – Rang De Basanti M. P. Karthik & Komal Shahani – Dor	Salim–Sulaiman – Krrish A. R. Rahman – Rang De Basanti Julius Packiam – Kabul Express Salim–Sulaiman – Dhoom 2 Vishal Bhardwaj – Omkara
Best Special Effects	Best Action
EFX – Krrish Red Chillies VFX – Don: The Chase Begins Again Tata Elxsi – Dhoom 2 Prime Focus – Jaan-E-Mann Pankaj Khandpur – Rang De Basanti	Tony Ching & Siu-Tung – Krrish Allan Amin – Dhoom 2 Angelo Samn – Don: The Chase Begins Again Jai Singh – Omkara Parvez Kiran – Gangster

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Javed Akhtar	Jaya Bachchan
R. D. Burman Award
Naresh Iyer
Special Performance Award
Deepak Dobriyal – Omkara
Power Award
Yash Chopra	Aditya Chopra

Maximum Nominations & Wins

Film	Awards	Nominations
Omkara	9	17
Rang De Basanti	6	21
Lage Raho Munnabhai	4	12
Krrish	3	8
Fanaa	3	4
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	1	23
Dhoom 2	1	8
Khosla Ka Ghosla	1	2
Gangster	1	10
Don: The Chase Begins Again	0	9
Being Cyrus	0	7
Golmaal	0	3
Aksar	0	3
Jaan-E-Mann	0	2

Sources

Watch 52nd Filmfare Awards Online, youtube.com

External links

^ "Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019". filmfare.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
^ "Nominations for the 52nd Filmfare Awards". Bollywood Hungama. 8 February 2007. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ "52nd FairOne Filmfare Awards 2006 winners". Bollywood Hungama. 6 March 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2021.

[1] "Filmfare Awards Winners From 1953 to 2019". filmfare.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.

[2] "Nominations for the 52nd Filmfare Awards". Bollywood Hungama. 8 February 2007. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[3] "52nd FairOne Filmfare Awards 2006 winners". Bollywood Hungama. 6 March 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2021.

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